Create a Freeform board on Mac
You can use the Freeform app to create boards for brainstorming and collaborating. For example, propose a trip with friends and let everyone take part in the planning. You can add text, sticky notes, photos, videos and other types of files. The canvas expands as you add content, so you’re never constrained by space limits or page formatting.
Create a new board
Go to the Freeform app
on your Mac.Click
in the toolbar.To insert an item, click one of the tools in the toolbar:
You can build your board by adding text, shapes or lines, photos or videos, diagrams, links, sticky notes and other files.
Your board is saved automatically as you work.
To name your board, click Untitled in the top left and enter a name.
You can customise how boards appear, such as showing all your boards as icons in a grid or displaying an individual board in full screen.
You can also create a board from another app. See Add items from another app to a Freeform board.
Open a board
Go to the Freeform app
on your Mac.Click a category in the sidebar.
If you don’t see the sidebar, choose View > Show Sidebar.
Double-click a board to view its contents.
Tip: When you make a board a favourite, you can easily find it in the Favourites category in the sidebar.
Sort your boards
You can choose how your boards are sorted so you can quickly find the one you want.
Go to the Freeform app
on your Mac.Click a category in the sidebar.
If you don’t see the sidebar, choose View > Show Sidebar.
Choose View > Sort by, then choose a sort order (for example, Date and Descending).
To organise your boards into groups, choose View > Use Groups.
For example, you can see all the boards shared by each person in separate groups in the Shared category in the Freeform sidebar.
Tip: To find a specific board even more quickly, you can search your boards.
Duplicate a board
Go to the Freeform app
on your Mac.Click a category in the sidebar, then select a board.
If you don’t see the sidebar, choose View > Show Sidebar.
Choose File > Duplicate (or press Shift-Command-D).
You can also send a copy of a board.
Note: If you duplicate a shared board, the copy isn’t shared.
Add a board to Favourites
You can make a board a favourite, and then easily find it in Favourites in the Freeform sidebar.
If you’re in a board, you can choose File > Add to Favourites. You can also mark a board as a favourite while browsing All Boards.
Go to the Freeform app
on your Mac.Do one of the following:
Click
on the left side of the board.Select the board you want to make a favourite, then choose File > Add to Favourites.
If you don’t see your board, choose View > Show Sidebar, then click All Boards.
You can remove a board as a favourite if you change your mind — click 
so it’s not shaded (or choose File > Remove from Favourites).